This doesn't look good, guys. My wife's 92 SL1 (90K miles) had the "low coolant" light come on today. I look in the surge tank, no coolant, just some brown oily sludge.
I had just checked a few days ago and the coolant level was fine and no oily sludge.
Oil changed a few weeks ago, cooling system flushed and refilled a few months ago.
No missing oil. No obvious sign of coolant in oil. Where that quart of coolant went I dunno, it was just there a few days ago.
Is this obviously a massive cylinder head crack/failed head gasket?
I see others write here about cylinder head cracks that manifest themselves as burning oil excessively (over thousands of miles) but what I have happend suddenly over just a few days.
Any words of consolation? Can someone tell me this is just an imploding water pump?
Tim.